KDE 4.0.0 has been released onto the world. "The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era." KDE 4.0 is the first release of "KDE 4", but take note that the developers have clearly stated that KDE 4.0 is not KDE 4, but more of a base release with all the underlying systems ready to go, but with still a lot of work to be done on the user-visible side. Download it from the KDE 4.0 info page. Update:Screenshots.

The Gentoo devs are not going to put it in the Portage tree until it hits 4.1.

Not even the unstable tree? I use the unstable tree anyways.. But if it requires me to install layman and all that I think I'll just download some binary distro and try it in a VM. Or wait until it arrives in the portage tree.